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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-01-25
ADM/A/1765/174
After your attending here on Wednesday last it was agreed that you are to proceed in the building of a Dry Dock at Plymouth in Catt Water in that harbour, as proposed by the account of Mr Dummer. …
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1698-01-23
ADM/A/1765/101
We direct you to cause such of the CENTURION's Men that are in town to be sent down to Chatham and entered on board such of their Majesties' Ships as you think fit, allowing them Conduct money as you think fit for travelling there, and assuring them that they will be paid their Wages for…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-01-25
ADM/A/1765/119
We direct you to send us an Account of what sum of Money will be required to pay the officers and Company of each of their Majesties' Ships of the two Squadrons designed for the Mediterranean and West Indies, all the Wages due to them to the first of August last, besides the two months Pay alr…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-01-25
ADM/A/1765/117
Pursuant to his Majesty's pleasure signified to us, we direct you to give effectual Orders that no Stores for the future be supplied to the Ships of War of the States General till particular directions are given by this Board.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-01-29
ADM/A/1765/129
We direct you to hire a Smack to imprest Men for the HOPE, now at Spithead.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-01-28
ADM/A/1765/127
We direct you to cause such of the DRAGON Sloop's Men (lately cast away) and now in town, to be sent down to Chatham and entered on board such of their Majesties Ships as you think fit, allowing them Conduct Money for travelling there, and assuring them that they will be paid their Wages for th…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-01-28
ADM/A/1765/125
Having ordered the SANDADOES to Sheerness to refit, we direct you take this in hand and complete as soon as possible, supply her with such a quantity of Provisions as will complete what she will have on board when refitted to three months, and Stores proper for service in the Channel. …
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-01-28
ADM/A/1765/123
We direct you to cause the Navy Yacht upon her arrival at Plymouth, where she is ordered, to be refitted, cleaned and victualled for service in the Channel.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-02-17
ADM/A/1765/281
We direct you to cause Rear Admiral Brakill to be furnished with two Cables out of their Majesties' Stores at Plymouth of the sizes proper for the Ships commanded by him, taking care to keep an exact account of the value, in order for payment by the State General.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-02-14
ADM/A/1765/273
Having notice from the Victualling Commissioners that this was the day the sum of five housand pounds appointed by the Treasury Commissioners for the service of victualling the Navy, we direct you to cause this sum (according to the desire of the Victualling Commissioners) to be Imprested and paid t…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-02-18
ADM/A/1765/293
We direct you to cause Lord Berkeley to be paid his Flag-pay as Rear Admiral of the Red Squadron of their Majesties' Fleet from the date of his Commission for that employment until today.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-02-18
ADM/A/1765/287
We direct you to cause the hired Ship ARCHANGEL to be fitted at Sheerness for a voyage to New York, and supplied with six months dry Provisions, and as much wet as she can conveniently stow, all possible dispatch to be made.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-02-17
ADM/A/1765/283
Captain Lawrence Wright, C-in-C of the Squadron bound to the West Indies, has by his letter of the 16th inst; to our Secretary, given us an account of the Provisions wanted to complete their eight months Provisions.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-02-19
ADM/A/1765/295
Your letter of the 15th inst; informed us that DOVER Prize which was sunk in the late storm at Plymouth and since recovered, is in such a condition that she cannot be made fit for sea without considerable charge, but she may be very useful in that Port in assisting the Hulk in taking in Guns etc;
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-02-05
ADM/A/1765/220
It appears by a Survey lately taken of the GUERNSEY at Portsmouth by the Master Shipwright and other Officers there, that she has received such damage in the late Storms as makes it necessary for her to be brought on shore on the Ways to repair her.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-02-08
ADM/A/1765/239
We send you the enclosed Estimates of the Levy Money for their Majesties two Marine Regiments, and direct you to solicit the Treasury for the same.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-02-11
ADM/A/1765/249
The Commissioners for Victualling have written concerning the need for Storehouses at Plymouth to lodge Provisions needed for Ships in that Port.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-02-08
ADM/A/1765/241
We direct you to cause the Officers and Company (except the Standing Officers) belonging to the SALAMANDER to be turned over to the RICHMOND at Portsmouth, as soon as she is in a condition to receive them.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-02-12
ADM/A/1765/255
We direct you to cause the CONSTANT WARWICK, now at Sheerness, to be immediately supplied with Stores she is in need of, enabling her to proceed on present service in the Channel.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-02-11
ADM/A/1765/253
We understand by a letter from the Treasury Secretary, Mr Jephson, that Alderman Herne has promised their Lordships to give Credit to Vice Admiral Killigrew at Cadiz for the sum of six hundred pounds to buy Brimstone for the use of the Navy, over and above the sum of one thousand pounds Credit alrea…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-02-11
ADM/A/1765/251
We direct you to cause the Officers and Company (except the standing Officers) belonging to the ESSEX to be turned over into the CORONATION at Portsmouth.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-02-04
ADM/A/1765/208
We direct you to cause the ASSURANCE and MERMAID to be fitted out for Channel service and manned with their highest complement of Men, and furnished with three months victuals with all dispatch.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-02-04
ADM/A/1765/202
We direct you to cause the Provisions on board the hired Ship CORONATION to be completed to eight months, and that she be supplied by her Owner with Boatswains and Carpenters Stores proper for her service in the West Indies.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-02-04
ADM/A/1765/218
We direct you to cause the Officers and Company (except the Standing Officers) belonging to the GARLAND, to be turned over into the MERMAID as soon as she is in a condition to receive Men.
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